Shooting in Connecticut

[WSSix]

Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab

Who is to say they didn't fight back or try Trey? Most of the witnesses are most likely dead. It would take co ordination and good training to take a weapon from an unstable person.
The first thing they tell you in an armed situation is to stay calm and quiet or try to reason if confronted. Hero's get killed or get others in real life.
These are common citizens, teachers, librarians not hardened combat tested warriors. Most will panic at the sight of a gun.

Again, I'm not referring to this instance explicitly. Reasoning with a person who clearly has massacre on their mind, as evidenced by these random attackers just simply starting to shoot people as compared to using a gun as a tool to have power over you to rob you, went out the window when the gun started firing. You're no longer being reasonable to believe you can reason with that person.

Flight 93 is a perfect example of the point I'm trying to make. Those people knew they were probably going to die regardless of whatever the terrorist told them, which I have no idea what they were told. Instead of sitting there with the attitude of someone will save us, they got up and did something. Maybe they would have been triumphant. Maybe they would have all died no matter what they did. The difference is they tried and fought for the one thing they could not lose. I don't see the whole of society having that same attitude and I think it's actually being discouraged and punished in many respects. I believe that's wrong.